Iot Secured Disjunctive XOR Two Factor Mutual Authentication for Users

Abstract

: The Internet of Things is one of the most adapting technology with the applications in multiple domains. Bringing together, huge number of devices and networks to access the information at one platform is called an IoT network. IoT is shifting its security priorities to consider data access control from a data-centric perspective. Recently, Muhammad et.al. has proposed a scheme of two-factor user authentication in WSN and claimed that his scheme is secured against various attacks [1]. However, we have found some pitfalls in his work and based on that, proposed a work, which is an improvement of the earlier works done by M.L. Das on access control policy. In our work, we have modified the existing algorithm by adding new computational load without disturbing the work done in the previous algorithm. The integration of our proposed work with the earlier work makes the whole process more protective from various insider attack. The proposed algorithm "Disjunctive XOR Two Factor Authentication Method " can be implemented with real life applications. The security patches implemented in the proposed algorithm, attempts to fix receptiveness of the gateway and makes the scheme more secured and adaptive. The proposed work is tested in an unsecured wireless sensor network and found to be capable of protecting from various attacks such as Bypass and Insider attacks. With addition, it also gives the flexibility, to allow user to change or update its login password within a secured environment. In our work, we have also proposed, the Mutual Authentication between the Gateway(GY-node) and Sensor Node(Sn) such that it gets protected by an inside attacker and secondly, to allow user to change/update password independently and thirdly proved that the work proposed is secured from insider and Bypass attacker.